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Old 01-31-2007, 11:19 AM   #1  
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I LOVE MY JOB . . . . . .

This is even funnier when you realize it's real! Next time you have a bad day at work think of this guy.

Rob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana. He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is an E-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to radio station 103.2 on FM dial in Ft. Wayne , Indiana , who was sponsoring a worst job experience contest. Needless to say, she won.

Hi Sue,

Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother. Last week I had a bad day at the office. I know you've been feeling down lately at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize it's not so bad after all.

Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with a few technicalities of my job.

As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office. It's a wet suit. This time of year the water is quite cool. So what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered industrial water heater. This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea. It heats it to a delightful temperature. It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose. Now this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several times with no complaints.

What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wet suit. This floods my whole suit with warm water. It's like working in a Jacuzzi.

Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to itch. So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse. Within a few seconds my butt started to burn. I pulled the hose out from my back, but the damage was done. In agony I realized what had happened.

The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my suit. Now, since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldn't stick to it However, the crack of my butt was not as fortunate.

When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into the crack of my butt. I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator. His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with five other divers, were all laughing hysterically.

Needless to say I aborted the dive. I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompression stops totaling thirty-five minutes before I could reach the surface to begin my chamber dry decompression. When I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass helmet.

As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub it on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber. The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't poop for two days because my butt was swollen shut.

So, next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your butt.

Now repeat to yourself, "I love my job, I love my job, I love my job."

Now whenever you have a bad day, ask yourself, is this a jellyfish bad day?

May you NEVER have a jellyfish bad day!!!!!

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Old 02-01-2007, 12:32 PM   #2  
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wow..and I thought I had a bad day yesterday!!! Nothing compared to that poor guy!
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Old 02-02-2007, 10:18 AM   #3  
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I'm speechless....
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Old 02-03-2007, 02:21 PM   #4  
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ROFL, yes his job is worse than any I've had.
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Old 02-05-2007, 12:17 AM   #5  
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Wow! He deserves to win for the worst job ever!
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Old 02-07-2007, 02:14 PM   #6  
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Now that's funny! I love my job
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Old 02-08-2007, 01:21 PM   #7  
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Wow...hair in my bra (from hairdressing) seems almost...comfortable!!
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Old 02-09-2007, 02:32 PM   #8  
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Gee, and I thought I had a bad day when my boss came to work unexpectedly and caught me in his office with my skirt off, spraying Static Guard on it.

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Old 02-09-2007, 06:25 PM   #9  
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Gee, and I thought I had a bad day when my boss came to work unexpectedly and caught me in his office with my skirt off, spraying Static Guard on it.

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Not sure TIKI, but seems to me that would burn "it"!
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Old 02-11-2007, 07:53 PM   #11  
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Dropping a 45 pound plate on my toes was painful, but that sounds worse! (at least I could poop!)

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Old 02-12-2007, 11:59 PM   #12  
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I don't miss retail, but I think I could even face retail again after that story.
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Old 03-04-2007, 05:50 PM   #13  
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I emailed that story to all my friends, it is so worth sharing, but in all seriousness I really do love my job!!
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Old 03-12-2007, 01:02 AM   #14  
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i hate my job so bad that I would rather have my butt swollen shut for two days.. two days I wouldnt have to be in ****
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